Is it possible to create watermarks in Xara?

[RoundDoggy]

I'd like to watermark my images upon export so that I retain ownership notification on them and make it harder to steal. Possible?

[handrawn]

Hi

heres one way

http://www.xaraxone.com/webxealot/wo...39/page_4.html

[RoundDoggy]

Hmm, what I'm more wondering is whether there's a way to automate it such that every page in the document has it, sort of like Word is able to do.

[handrawn]

not embed it into an image, no

its possible to place a repeating object on every page

[gwpriester]

Copy and Paste?

[RoundDoggy]

How do you do that? I don't care about the effect, I just need to create a repeating object (transparent so it's not covering up the content) as the top layer of each page. I could copy and paste, but I'm wondering if there's a less tedious way to do this.

[handrawn]

once you have made your object - right click it and select 'repeat on all pages'

[handrawn]

thanks for the clarifications

it would still work as :

I just need to create a repeating object (transparent so it's not covering up the content) as the top layer of each page

though, wouldn't it ?

[Big Frank]

Watermarking your images using an automated process before you drop them into your Xara document is by far the most efficient way to achieve this if you have a lot of images. I use an Action in Photoshop for this, but there's plenty of dedicated apps out there that will do this.

It would be fairly easy for me to show you how to restore an image that's been watermarked, but it would be against the rules of this forum, so I won't do it. Unless you really deface an image with your watermark, nothing you do will put off a determined thief with some graphical talent. There's software out there that displays images that cannot be snaffled by screenshot apps, but it's technically fussy and possibly prohibitively expensive. It all depends on your requirements and the effort you're prepared to put into making your images as thief-proof as possible.

Technically, this image would be easy to restore to its unwatermarked state, but it would simply require some time: